A blog to help inspire organized resistance to the ALP's ill-advised, counter-productive and potentially totalitarian plan to impose mandatory ISP-based filtering on all residential internet feeds by default. This is *not* about the filth they are trying to block. This is about the Orwellian mechanism they are building to do it.

Thursday, January 3, 2008

A notice to my ISP

Please forward this to your communications director and to your accounts department.
Consider this a notification that I want to apply for any opt-out policy that my ISP creates in response to the government's recent proposal to extend the coverage of the ACMA blacklists and the intention to impose mandatory filtering requirements on all ISPs.
I wish to make it crystal clear that I have not, do not and will not consume child pornography nor do I harbour any secret desire to. To demonstrate my good faith in this matter, I will consider applying for any voluntary service that you offer that restricts access to material of this kind, provided the performance of my feed is not affected and that all editorial decisions are made by a board of well-respected Australians from a broad cross-section of the community and that all deliberations of the editorial board that result in blocking decisions are fully transparent and absent of covert or overt or Government influence.
I would also ask that my ISP does what it can in the public sphere to resist these potentially draconian changes to Australia's internet access.
If you are unable to respond positively to this e-mail within the two weeks, I will be seeking to transfer my business to another ISP who will.
Yours Sincerely,
Jon Seymour
cc: Stephen Conroy (Minister), Tanya Plibersek (Local MP)

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Highly (though not universally) recommended as a serious attempt to understand the role of pornography in contemporary Australian society, one which debunks much of the moral panic surrounding the subject.

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